Tailor&#39;s measuring device



March 28, 1950 I KNlPP 2,501,948

TAILOR s MEASURING DEVICE Filed Sept. 14, 1946 Patented Mar. 28, 1950 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE TAILORS MEASURING DEVICE Arthur R. Knipp, Napoleon, Ohio Application September 14, 1946, Serial No. 697,049

3 Claims. (01. 33-8) determination, especially of an individual as to an article of apparel to conform to a stature requirement desired.

This invention has utility in tailoring establishments and apparel merchandising places in the supplying of nether garments of the general charactor of trousers, more especially in quickly ascertaining the crotch dimension therefor, and which may be readily disclosed by the customers position at the equipment and operation thereof to the signal or check-off position therefor.

Referring to the drawings:

' V Fig. l is a perspective view of an embodiment ,ofthe invention in a trouser leg crotch length measuring apparatus;

Fig. 2 is a detail view in side elevation of the operating handle for the unit of Fig. l, a portion only of the column being shown;

Fig. 3,is a fragmentary detail of the base of the column of the installation of Fig. 1, showing the idler wheel and the belt or measuring band tightener therefor;

Fig. 4 is a detail on an enlarged scale, in section thru the column, showing the distance limit check arm mounting on the measuring band or tape; and

Fig. is a detail view from the left of Fig. 4, of the snap release audible signal for the check arm limit stop.

A base I has stance seat or indication means 2 to determine a desirable spread of the limbs for the individual to take the crotch or inside trouser leg measurement. Screws 3 anchor a flange 4 of a tubular clamp member 5 having a slot 6 with spaced ears 1 adapted to be drawn toward each other to lock therein the lower end of a column tube 8, by the adjustment of a screw 9.

The column 8 has longitudinally thereof a window or slot opening In. Somewhat below the lower portion of the slot in, a cross strip I I (Fig. 3) is fixed in the tube 8. A threaded stem l2 extends loosely thru an opening l3 in the strip or bridge piece II and is engaged therebelow by a nut I4, adjustable thereon. The stem I2 is in a plug or block l5 having a forked upper end I8 acros which extends a bearing pin I! to mount a follower or idler roller l8. A lower loop of an endless belt or measuring tape I9 is about the roller l8.

The tape 19 in its extent upward inside and parallel to the slot l0, passes over a drive roller 20 on a bearing pin 2| in a top plug or cap member 22 for the tube 8. The pin 2| protrudes from the member 22 and has fixedly mounted thereon a hand wheel 23. A keep orguard 24 span a fork 25 of the member 22 in which the roller 20 is mounted by the pin 2i. The tape 19 in passingover the roller 23 is under the keep 24, which also serves as an index or pointer to determine a reading of a marking 23 on the tape l9.

Screws 21 mount a bracket 28 at a slot opening 29 in the tape l9. The screws 2! extend thru the tape l9 into a control slide 38. In the vicinity of the opening 29 the slide 39 in the tube 8 has an opening 3| to a plunger or stem 32 having a port 33 movable relatively to the openings 29, 3|, held in register by the screws 21.

The plunger 32 protrudes from the lower end of the slide 30 and there extends thru a washer 34 yieldably held thereagainst by a compression helical spring 35, holding adjustment of which may be varied by nuts 36 on the stem orplunger 32 remote from the slide 30.

A wing nut 31 on a fulcrum bolt 38 provides a mounting for an arm 39, normally slightly upwardly inclined in its extent away from the column tube 8 centrally over the base I. Inward from the fulcrum 38, the arm 39 protrudes thru the slots 29, 3 I, to enter the port 33 in the stem 32.

The individual, with feet spread apart and heels approximating the seats 2 in standing upon the base I and facing the column 8, may, as astride the arm 39, operate the hand wheel himself, or the clerk so do. The handwheel 23 thus operated causes the measuring band H? as endless and anchored with the bracket 28 to be moved. The ascent of the arm 39 is continued until it is rocked on its fulcrum 38 to a horizontal position. The spread between the limbs of the individual from the stance on the base I provides a normal clearance in the approach to the crotch for the clothing at the crotch to retard further rise of the arm 39. This lag or resistance preferably is not sharp, but such as may be a comfortable limit for trouser crotch position.

The swinging of the arm 39 On its fulcrum 38, moves the plunger 32 upward relatively to its guide or slide 30 and against the resistance of the spring 35. There is a clearway 40 in a side of the guide or slide 38 downward and opposite from the opening 3|. A pin 4| extends radially from the stem 32 into the way 40 above a bracket 42, having guide flanges 43 for a stem 44. The slide 30 in its clearway 49 mounts the bracket 42. A pin 45 thru the stem 44 is normally held against the lower flange 43 by a helical compression spring 46 about the stem 44 reacting against the underside of the upper flange 43. The stem 44 protrudes upwardly from the top flange of the 3 bracket 42 and there carries a pair of complementary spring fingers 41 providing a snap throat 48 riding on the pin M of the stem 32.

The spring 35 normally holds the arm 38 yieldably to have a slight upward direction as extending forwardly from the column 8. Upon the turning of the handwheel 23 to such extent that the arm 39 in its approach to crotch limit position, is resisted to move to horizontal position. This p 11s the stem 32 in the guide 30, and the pin 4! a dibly snaps clear of the fingers 41, signalling t e individual that the measurement disclosure at the indicator 24 is length sought. The clamp 5, 9, may locate the column 8 for the desired lower start position from the vicinity of the heel for the accurate trouser leg inside length from the footwear up. A return guide 49 ofithe finger M directs the pin 4|, upon the release of the arm 39, to re-enter the throat 48 as an automatic reset for the unit.

What is claimed and it is-desired'to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A base providing foot position seats and a column'clamp, a column mountable by the clamp to extend upward from the base, a top for the column, an actuator roller mounted in said column top, a follower roller housed by the column near the clamp, 'an endless measuring tape belt about the rollers, a fulcrum providing bracket mounted fixedly with the tape, said column having a guide slot thru which the bracket protrudes from the tape, a lever carried by theb'ra'cket to 'exten'd over the base as to one arm thereof, the other arm extending past the bracket into the column, an audible signal device responsive to depression of the -over base arm of the lever-operation of the other arm, there being an indicator for tape extentmovement near the actuator roller.

'2. Trouser leg inside measurement equipment including an upwardly extending tubular guide, pulleys in the upper and lower portions of said guide, an endless belt measuring tape about the pulleys, a pointer providing cap for the guide exposing the tape in proximity to the upper pulley, said guide having a slot, a gage arm connected thru the slot with the tape, and upper pulley actuating means for shifting the tape to position the gage arm.

3. Trouser leg inside measurement equipment including an upwardly extending tubular column, measuring means enclosed in the column and movable relatively thereto, a gage arm, a bracket connected to the measuring means to be moved thereby, said bracket providing pivotal mounting .for the gage'arm, an actuator for the measuring means, and a signal carried by the column and means operable by the arm rocking On its pivot The following references are of record in th file of this "patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 534,865 Dolen Feb.-26, 1895 674,442 Hockersmith May 21, 1901 1,933,446 Olsen Oct. 31, 1933 12,104,175 Turpan 'Janl4, 1938 2,112,929 Shulman Apr.'5, 1938 2,122,068 Meyers June 28, 1938 2,182,024 Hoffman Dec/5, 1939 2,24 2,07l 'I-Ioffman May '13, 1941 2,386,181 Bailey Oct. 9.19%

FOREIGN PATENTS Number Country .Date

48,773 Sweden May 31, 1920 277,345 Germany Aug. 10, 1914 409,063 GreatBritain Apr.'26, 1934 

